Rare Look Into Nation's Largest Death Row, at San Quentin

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Wednesday, Jan 27, 2016

With California's lethal injection protocol in limbo, the nearly 750 inmates at San Quentin State Prison, the nation’s most populous death row, are more likely to die from natural causes or suicide than execution. The inmates await a final decision on a proposed one-drug execution method to replace a three-drug method that a federal judge invalidated in 2006 as a potentially cruel and unusual punishment. Here, take a rare look at daily life behind the gates of death row as the inmates await their fate.